athlon

Latin noun
quoted from Greek

Last edited: 2024-11-11
Primary meaning lot
Literal translation labour
Variants
athlon
Edited by
lot astrological concept

Et, quoniam certo digestos orbe labores nominaque in numerum viresque exegimus omnis (athla vocant Grai, quae cuncta negotia rerum in genera et partes bis sex divisa coercent), nunc, quibus accedant signis quandoque, canendum est.

‘Since I have expounded the fixed circle of activities arranged in order, with all their names and powers (athla is the Greek name for the sections which contain all the affairs of life arranged in twice six classes and portions), now must my poem tell to which signs they are attached at any given moment.’

— Manilius, Astronomica 3.160 ff

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 174-175

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). athlon (Lemma #2319). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2319/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). athlon (Lemma #2319). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2319/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). athlon (Lemma #2319). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2319/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) athlon (Lemma #2319), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2319/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2319,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {athlon ({Lemma} #2319)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2319/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2319/},
}